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by kevintb 7y ago
A $65,000/year CS degree from Stanford is not a typical CS degree, and I find it misleading to compare that next to a coursera education or a “free” github readme full of links.
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by kevintb 7y ago
Wow, excellent article. > We should be talking about cases like IBM and the Holocaust with our students and with ourselves. A majority of our students will go on to work for companies just like IBM. And if they aren’t taught that trage
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by kevintb 7y ago
Why, the intro perfectly describes a comment such as this one :-)
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by kevintb 7y ago
I use this now, having switched from Workflowy. It’s great — I’m a huge fan.
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by kevintb 7y ago
yep yep yep. people in software are _incredibly_ arrogant in thinking that their approach works for other industries, when tech is really an outlier compared to most fields.
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by kevintb 7y ago
Disheartening to see so many apathetic or downright hostile responses on here. I applaud this article for taking a stand.
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by kevintb 7y ago
ah, very handy!
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When ML and Data Science are the death of a good company: A cautionary tale(reddit.com)
11 points by kevintb 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevintb 7y ago
Hilarious! I tried words like “deep learning”, “diversity” and “feminism” and was deeply amused by the generated comments.
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by kevintb 8y ago
Good. There are few things more wasteful in energy and minimal in doing good for the world. Widespread bitcoin adoption would be catastrophic for the Earth and climate change efforts [1]. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles&
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The Blind Men and the Animal Interface (2018)(christine.website)
1 points by kevintb 8y ago|0 comments
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Npmlayoffs(twitter.com)
23 points by kevintb 8y ago|6 comments
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by kevintb 8y ago
> The fact that you don't use the knowledge gained in a particular course does not make that course worthless. Thank you! It irritates me so much to see people refusing to learn just because it isn’t a sought-out skill listed in job
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by kevintb 8y ago
I really dislike the comparisons between boot camps and college, as if they are substitutes for another. They’re not, and 100% depends on your goal. If your goal is the fastest track to employment in any programming job, then web developmen
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by kevintb 8y ago
It compares only India, China, Russia, and the US, where there is a huge variation in education quality for the first 3 countries. It would have far more interesting to see the US stacked up to other English speaking countries. Wonder why
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by kevintb 8y ago
Congrats on PagerDuty!
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by kevintb 8y ago
Perhaps for you; not for my experience. Also, you get as much as you put in. I’ve had plenty of awful professors but found ways to study in my own time, do my own projects and read papers on top of the curriculum I was learning. You can’t e
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by kevintb 8y ago
I strongly disagree. Elite colleges are all about signaling. But I don't doubt for a second that my CS degree taught me an enormous amount - some skill-building, lots of abstract thinking - that I wouldn't have been able to achi
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by kevintb 8y ago
Very cool! Like the setup and I always like hearing more about Plan 9 projects.
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He’s known for ‘ethical investing,’ and charged in the admissions scandal(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by kevintb 8y ago|0 comments
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by kevintb 8y ago
Tech salaries are not even close to SF levels. The average pay for a software engineer in Vancouver is $70,000. Many new grad jobs average around $35,000/year.
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by kevintb 8y ago
You clearly haven’t read the book or even clicked on the link. It’s written by Jeremy Kun, a fantastic math professor who’s written several excellent posts on his blog on how to intuitively grasp mathematical concepts.
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by kevintb 8y ago
Yep, this is 100% true. Discourse on gender related topics on HN is digusting at best, and gender related articles are prolifically flagged. More undocumented behavior here: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undo
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by kevintb 8y ago
Excellent post! I found #3 pretty informative (and funny, in a sad way) in particular.
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by kevintb 8y ago
> They are also massive fans of declaring that they have “facts,” that their analysis is “unbiased,” that they only use “‘reason” and “logic” and not “emotions” to make decisions. Ha! So true. I’ve yet to meet a single individual repeate
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by kevintb 8y ago
Yes, it's widely used among universities teaching intro computer systems, I believe.
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by kevintb 8y ago
Incredibly cool project!
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by kevintb 8y ago
So true. "10 years of experience" means nothing. It could mean "10 years of in-depth focus on X subfield and skills" or "1 year of work experience repeated 10 times."
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by kevintb 8y ago
yep, yep, yep. precisely.
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by kevintb 8y ago
I actually do strongly agree with you on abolishing a degree as a requirement and replacing degrees with a simple test to prove your competence. I only used “CS university education” as a proxy for an in-depth education that can be difficul

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